New Nation, 14 May 1974

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  • 23 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Tuesday evening, May 14, 1974 No. 1024 Price 20 cents M.C. <P) 20/74 NEW S&TION SINGAPORE TUESDAY, MAY 14. 1974
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  • 776 1  -  Team of 44 men return to the island for an all-out hunt for more murder clues By 1 Bharathi Mohan, Morris John More bones were found in Sentosa today, as a painstaking all-out hunt began for clues to the skeleton mystery. The dramatic discovery
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  • 186 1 Police are anxious to contact the families or friends of the Sentosa murder victims whose skeletons are now at the Outram Road General Hospital. At a press conference yesterday, called by the head of the Pathology Department. Dr. Chao Tzee Cheng, these two skulls were
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  • 158 1 Price* rose slightly at the Stock Exchange of Singapore this morning. BUSINESS DONE; C. Prop. (1) 2.04. City Dev. (25) 1.38. (20) 1.40 (18) 1.39. San Hold. (37 0.79, (3) 0.785, (1) 0.78. a Land (1) 2.22, (1) 2.23, (8) 2.24, (5) 2.28, (2) 2-27, (5) 2.25.
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  • 423 1 Meetings before final decision London. Tuesday British defence ministers will have talks tf. is month in South-East Asia, the United States and Western Europe on future cuts on British defence spending, Parliament was told yesterday. Defence Secretary Mr. Roy Mason said he planned to
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  • 327 1 Reuter Cairo, Tuesday A Singapore trade mission yesterday discussed with leading Egyptian officials the possibility of Singapore taking part lp the setting up of free trade zones in three Egyptian ports. The mission, led by Mr. Rldzwan Dzaflr, director of the Finance Ministry's Trade Department,
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  • 13 1 Police reported 109 accidents yesterday. Five were serious and four fatal.
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  • 120 1 Canberra, Tuesday Australian Prime Minister Mr. Oough Whltiam yesterday denied that negotiations aze taking place to transfer sovereignty over Christmas Island to Singapore. He said any change in the future status of the would involve several government departments in Australia and a number of othercountries, Including
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  • 74 1 These are some of the bones and a shoe unearthed at Sentosa's "skeleton beach" this morning (foreground). The digging was performed by 44 men from the ClD's Special Investigation Section and the Police Reserve Unit. The operation was supervised by chief pat ho logist,
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 547 2  -  These people spend nearly 60 per cent of money earned By Rav K. Dhaliwal Rlsl.ng food prices have hit the lower Income groups hard-* est, taking up to nearly 60 per cent of their income. This is indicated by a recent
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    • Article, Illustration
      247 2  -  By Anne-Marie Nalpon Miss Leong Peck Mun is petite and demure but she Is not one to panic if someone shouted "fire." A Mandarin Hotel trainee, mim Leong attended a fire-fighting course conducted by the Port of Singapore Fire Department recently. She passed with flying colours. Even
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    • 41 2 A baby show for babies between the ages of three months and 18 months will be held at the Tlong Bahru Community Centre on June 2. Registration is now open at the centre from 2.30 frm. to 10.30 p.m.
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    • 210 2 More than $200,000 was raised bj the Catholic Welfare Services In Its recent 1974 Charities Week Campaign. The sum raised by the CWS's schools, churches and Institutions amounted to $160,000 and the amount raised from the public was $77,000. Mr. Cyril Chew. 52, director of
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    • 881 2 The University of Singapore has announced results of the examinations for degrees of Bachelor of Engineering, Diploma in Bodal Studies and Bachelor of Arts (for candidates who read Social Work as one of their subjects). The following candidates have passed the Final Examination for the degree of
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    • 283 2 A total of 180 hawkers have been prosecuted since the Government's crackdown on unclean eating stalls began last March. They were charged under the Environmental Health (Food Handlers) Regulations, which came into effect last September. Most of them were fined between $25 and
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    • 53 2 The Singapore Teachers' Union and the Centre for Applied Behavioural Science is organising a course on Behaviour Problems in the Classroom at the Teachers' Centre next month. The course is designed to help teachers understand the motives of children who do not conform to behaviour standards in
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    • 389 3  -  Upper floors residents now pay more for renovation work By Sunny Wee Contractors carrying out renovation work for owners of new HDB flats are revising their rates because of the ban op the use of lifts for carrying building materials. Flat owners
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    • 28 3 Ho Si Heng alias Ho Ah Chye alias Wal Chwee, male Chinese from Indonesia, has been permanently prohibited from entering Singapore, according to the Government Gazette.
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    • 102 3 The Singapore Flying Club has been invited to take part in Australia's light aircraft race In June. The event, the Hinkler 1000, will cover about 1600 km (1000 miles). The winner will receive a prize money of AS 1500 (*****5) and a trophy. The Hinkler
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    • 23 3 Dr. Zahoor Ahmad will speak in Malay on Vocational Guidance at the Jalan Pagak community centre on May 25 at 8 p.m.
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    • 247 3 Four soya bean sauce factories in Lim Chu Kang have been asked by the government to move out of their present sites. They have been asked to apply for alternative sites from the Jurong Town Corporation. It Is understood that the four factories, employing about
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    • 225 3 The Society for Aid to the Paralysed (SAP) has stressed the importance of sports in the rehabilitation of the handicapped in a recent editorial message. To aid in the promotion of sports for the handicapped, the socletv will hold a sports nUht at its workshop
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    • 150 3 Pick me a tick and I will pick you one—it's all part of the daily game with this family. While dad straightens his back, mum goes through the hair. And baby makes three acting as a lookout for any invading mite jumping onto their backs. For here
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    • 50 3 PGA fire boat Api Api is still dousing the fire which broke out on one of the decks of the dUgrlm liner Malaysia Kita on Saturday. A P3A spokesman said there was no danger of oU pollution. The ship Is now resting on the seabed off Katong.
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    • 549 3 52 p.c. disapprove Singapore's married women still disapprove of induced abortion, according to a national family planning survey. Out of the 2078 married women Interviewed, T»niy 23 per cent gave their approval compared to 52 per cent who disapproved and another 22 per cent
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 280 2 NEW NATION CROSSWORD naaa aaaa ana aaaa ai 10 Biblical kingdom 11 Cretan Ung 12 Canal Zone town 13 Indigent 15 Pr. bus, abbr. 19 Eating: Prefix 22 Intervene 24 Fight 25 Timetable abbr. 27 Seeds 28 Exclusively 29 Americano In Mexico 31 Provoke 33 Allow 35 Fish: traditionally 36
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  • FOR YOUR PLEASURE
    • 240 4  -  By Florence Tan For a minute, they thought Bozo the clown was In town. With his button nose, wide red mouth and colourful costume, he held them spell-bound with short stories and rib-t Ickll n g Jokes. And when he conducted the
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    • 505 4  -  Credit goes to two members for the new sound POPS JEAN LI LINDISFARNE: ROLL ON, RUBY (CHARISMA): A lot of people were upset when Lindisfarne disbanded sometime last year. The band was riding the crest of a wave or massive popularity and were destined
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    • 131 4 A letter from England written In 1962 but only just delivered in Australia has brought a former dancing girl balf-way across the world. She wants to find the rest of a troupe who during the thirties were the toast of three Continents. Mrs. Lucy Pullen, aged 64,
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    • 416 4  -  EATING OUT WITH Lu Lim Those of you who belong to the bacop-and-eggs set, there is a llp-s macking breakfast to be had in town which will make you eat toast and marmalade only under sufferance. This near perfect morning feast can be found along Cheong Hong
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    • 200 4 forme's m THE Singapore Chapter of Dcebana International will stage a Japanese flower display at the Shangri-La Hotel, at 10 ajn. tomorrow. Members of Its sister chapter from Auckland, will also be present Apart from a flower demonstration by Mrs. M. Goto, si teacher from
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 1403 4  -  Welfare projects for community service SPORE '74 By Gene Teo People living In Sembawang and the former naval base can now turn to the Sree Narayana Mission for help and guidance in overcoming emotional stresses and strains and other problems resuiting from
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    • 847 4  -  THEY'RE POPULAR FOR 'COSMETIC REASONS' By Florence Tan The next time you look at a friend and she smiles at you confidently minus her usual pair of spectacles, chances are that she has gone "contact." Contact lenses are to popular these days that
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 454 5 IRA bid to burn houses: Wilson Reuter, UPI London, Tuesday Prime Minister Harold Wilson last night told of a plan by extremist forces in Northern Ireland to burn the "houses of ordinary people" as part of a scorch-ed-earth policy to forment sectarian hatred. In
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    • 143 5 United Press International Hong Kong, Tuesday. Sprmer Hong Kong Police Chief Superintendent Peter Goaoer, who is being held in Britain on a charge of accepting a bribe to promote a fellow officer, faced an additional charge yesterday. According to the Commission Against, Corruption, senior magistrate Pau
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    • 31 5 New Delhi, Tuerday The Indian Government Is rushing a million doses of smallpox vaccine by air to Bihar where about 10.000 people have died of the disease this year.
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    • 165 5 Washington, Tuesday. —Many Americans have been wrongly convicted by Inadmissible evidence because the Nixon Administration ordered telephones to be bugged without proper authorisation, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The court ruling, which was unanimous, said the 1967 Crime Control and Safe Streets Act clearly
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    • 293 5 Washington Tuesday— President Nixon yesterday assured one of his Cabinet members there was "no chance.. .whatever" of his resigning. Mr. Caspar Weinberger. the Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare, who met Mr. Nixon for half an hour to discuss legislative progress on welfare reform
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    • 100 5 London, Tuesday Princess Anne's favourite horse Doublet, on whom she won the European three-day equestrian title In 1971, broke a hind leg while she was training him yesterday and had to be destroyed. The 23-year-old Princess was reported to have wept after the accident at Smith's
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    • 295 5 UPI, Reuter Lourenco Marques, Tuesday. The Portuguese Junta's number two man, Oen. Francisco Da Costa Gomes, left here yesterday after a 72-hour visit to Mozambique aimed at securing peace in the military, political and Industrial sectors of the territory. Before his departure,
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    • 99 5 Lusaka, Tuesday. Cannon Burgess C&rr, secretary-general of the All-Africa Conference of Churches (AACC). yesterday urged African Christians to support liberation more ments and accused the Vatican of "complicity with Portuguese terror." In a 6000-word speech, the church leader told the conference's third assembly here the only
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    • 156 5 United Press International Bangkok, Tuesday Thai students yesterday began a leaflet campaign urging the government to confiscate an estimated US$7O million ($lO3 million) in assets belonging to the three ousted military leaders who ran Thailand until last fall. The students passed out leaflets which
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    • 26 5 Adelaide, Tuesday. Hundreds of tourists were stranded yesterday In buses and cars bogged down on muddy unsealed roads In the flooded north of South Australia.
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    • 344 5 No change in policy of govt. Reuter, UPI Tel Aviv, Tuesday Israel's ruling Labour alignment said yesterday the country's new government now being formed would abide by the policies adopted by Mrs. Golda Meir's administration when It was set up three months ago. The
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    • 73 5 Villager* weep over the bodies of a woman and her two sons a young baby and a boy aged t who were killed in airstrikes by Israeli planes over South-east Lebanon yesterdayLebanese authorities said four civilians died in the attack on the village of Al-Kafir,
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    • 15 5 Johannesburg, Tuesday —Someone has stolen prehistoric footprints from South Africa's National Monuments Commission.
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    • 281 5 Reuter New Delhi, Tuesday— Railway Minister Lalit Mlshra has ruled out resumption of wage negotiations with rallwaymen before a national rail strike, now In Its seventh day, Is called off. "The return to work Is a must before starting any negotiations," he was reported to
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  • OPINION
    • 516 6 The need to eradicate drug addiction has been so much publicised In Singapore that anyone who has not lost his seeing and hearing faculties should have no excuse for being ignorant of it Drug addiction has been compared to a cancerous growth except
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    • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
      • 86 6 If there Is anything that a newspaper office gets a lot of, it is Press releases. We get them from the Government offices, from the businessmen, from the workers and from an infinite number of private organisations. One release from the Institute of Admlnlstra- tlve Management, however, wins
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    • 1172 6  -  Lut «wk New Nttin ■wrirf a Mart ef the an W u elsetrie chair by a THth far CkiW pw» la attract Man V Pel—aist GcraM de Cras deplores this ghaariek not only an the greands that lirtin have warnad that repeated alarh cicaH
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    • 1007 6  -  Bj James P. Grant Los Angeles Times Changes of historic proportions were reflected In the Justconcluded U.N. Special Session on Raw Materials and Development. A switch from the traditional buyer's to a seller's market, widespread scarcities, a freshL* Impoverished "Fourth World"
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    • 667 6  -  From Harry Trimborn Los Angeles Times Although the government has not said anything official yet, it appears certain Turkey will resume cultivation this summer of opium producing poppies in commercial Quantities. At present, Turkish officials note, a 1971 government ban on the poppy, which yields
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    • VOICE OF THE PRESS
      • 219 6 O What other nevotpapen are saying: THE DIFFICULTIES FACED BT BUMLPUTRA BUSINESSMEN Newly-emerging Bumlputra businessmen are finding it difficult to secure loans from local banks. If this ctate of affairs is allowed to continue it Is very likely that the objective of 90 per cent Bumlputra participation In
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      • 366 6 ANTI-CRIME CAMPAIGN AND "BEST STUDENTB" AWARDS Today we will witness two important ceremonies which aeem to be unrelated to each other but, nonetheless, are of equal significance In •erring to bring about a change of wTi«tTr>g social habits and customs. First Is the Inauguration ceremony of an
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
    • Article, Illustration
      1071 7  -  The tug-of-love tragedies... The course of true love never runs smooth. Or so the popular saying claims. Instead of fighting obstacles and problems with determination, young lovers are sometimes so overcome with the difficulties facing them that they enter into a pact to commit suicide. In both Malaysia and
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    • 998 7 In most modern societies, suicide as a form of selfdestruction is considered a disgraceful and cowardly act The victim Is said to have failed to face up to life's agonies and his family and relatives suffer the shame. However, history Is replete with instances of
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    • 1023 7  -  By Alan Thomas Reuter T r adi tfonal Chinese junks are as much part of the scene In Hong Kong's famous harbour as ocean liners and freighters from most corn e r s of the globe. With their distinctive bat-wine ■ails, they have been plying
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  • SHOPPING
    • 619 8 rpHE word magic A conjures up all kinds of seemingly impossible feats performed with the aid of supernatural powers amidst an air of mystery and intrigue. But that is only one meaning of magic. Magic can be categorised into three types the possession of supernatural
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    • 179 8 5151i>1l Fresh-Fone? It's a new, exciting different way of keeping your telephone mouthpiece. clean and piMlant smelling. It"I a perfumed domtectant spray with an activc antiseptic compound that kills bacteria and odour As convenient a* |cst depressing the noiile Fresh Fone is most ideal for use in hotets. offices, private
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    • 160 8 ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Great Wall Emporium's QQ SAVING 00 SPECIAL Bg big savings on anything you buy Jeson Genera! Construction has a wide selection of MARBLES TERAZZO MOSAIC GLAZED WALL TILES CARPETS CURTAINS WALLPAPERS Beautiful and economical Free consultation and measurement All enquiries welcomed it U Nu. 10 Cdif nf ii'
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    • 112 8 SINGAPORE 1. AGENTS TELEPHONE ***** SPECIAL Em E3 OFFER G 850 CARTRIDGE Goldring G 850 CARTRIDGE with the new GlOl Turntable providing Hi-Fi quality at l\ a realistic cost of $180/nett Belt drive, two speed unit housed in an elegant low-level cabinet. Limited stock only. S t U c. sW
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  • TREND
    • 503 9  -  HOUSEWISE VIOLEI OON An attractive bathroom 1s essential in any home because It's the first thing to greet you in the morning and, nothing can be more de- pressing than seeing four drab walls through bleary eyes. All too often the bathroom
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    • 405 9  -  M-SHAK BY JEANINE SINISCAL Today I would like to add four more exercises to the introductory ones I taught you last week in our new series, Post Pregnancy Exercises. All these are designed to restore the muscles In the abdomen, pelvis and rib
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    • 562 9 Washington Post This is the age of synthetic smells. New-mown hay, forests, bread-in-the oven, Christmas memories, strawberries, sweet peas or even the gimmicky brand X all exist as sprays, blotters liquids or jels. It's known as perfuming with a purpose a
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    • 32 9 Chinese and Amerl-can-style take-away food .shops are flourishing in Britain at the expense of the traditional fish and chip shops which have dropped from 14,900 In IMS to 11,500.
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  • FINANCE
    • 173 9 European Asian Bank has reported a 117.8 per cent increase in total assets to DM521.7 witniwi during its first year of operation from 1973 to 1973. The volume of business balance sheet total plus endorsement liabilities—grew by 111.2 per cent to DM532.8 million.
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    • 63 9 Hume Industries (8) Ltd. has won a $5.2 million order from the Bangladesh government for the supply of asbestos cement pressure pipes, cast iron fittings, and OlenOeld and Kennedy valves. These Singapore-made products, together with Hume principal's Olenfleld and Kennedy valves, are to be supplied
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    • 391 9  -  Bj K. Rav. Dhaliwal A long-term capital market must be developed to meet the future needs of the business sector. This Is one of the musts in the picture of the future business world outlined by Mr. Sidney Callis, financial and management accounting
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    • 339 9 United Press International Washington, Tuesday. East-West trade is booming but it also has caused some undesirable ripples, according to the chairman of the Mitsui and Company of Japan. Mr. Ellchl Hashimoto, exploring East West trade in a paper prepared for the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC),
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
      • 196 9 Closing prices (In franes) yesterday: Paribae 103 +1 Inrtochtne 178 +6 Fonder 335 —.50 Prlntemps 90.10 —.10 C.OJt. 3«S +6 Bull 50 +.50 Royal Dutch 151.50 —1.60 Mlohelln 937 +11 Thomson 313.90 +11.90 OCT 149.50 +2.50 Rhone 139J0 +50 Air 381.80 +3.30 BAN. 960 +7 Philips 59 —1 Sua
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      • 86 9 This serrlce oomee from the Union Bank at I km) J* 1 It— Closing prices (in francs) on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterdaj r; UBS 3300 —80 SBC •66 —11 Credit Suisse 3666 —35 Swissair B. 466 —10 Swiss Relnsur. 1070 —10 Wlnterthur B. 1730 —46 Zurich Injur. 6636
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      • 462 9 Prices retreated along New York Stock Exchange yesterday, reflecting Investor concern about rising Interest rates and Inflation. Trading was slow. At the close the Dow Jones Industrial average was off 4.85 at 845.59. Standard and Poor's 500 stocx index was down 0.81 to 90.68. Declines topped advances 1045
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      • 333 9 The Tokyo market stayed firm though no remarkable Incentive factors were seen. The trading was Inactive because lending stocks In marginal trading reached to Its previous peak. In the morning session, under the report of City Bank's active offrecord loans prior to the expected policy change, the market opened
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      • 221 9 Prices at 1150 un. (Australian time): Aberleen pmj Do opts susp. AOD 08* Allstate 11 13 Amad 03% «4 Aurora 11 nil Do cpts nil 00% Aust Ant 08 10 Qamboo 05 nil Beach nil 30 Bounty susp. Bridge 1416 Cleveland 46 46 Cosmos 00% 01 Do ctg nU
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    • 295 9 A steadier tone was evident in selective trading on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. Despite the general air of wariness, speculative stocks on the whole closed firmer with gains of up to 21 cents. The market got off to a slow start with prices hovering about and
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    • 36 9 The Dow Jones closing stock averages on the New York Exchange were: 30 Industrials 847.31 (off 4 85), 20 transport 109.57 (off 3.25). 15 utilities 77.85 (off 0.9®) and 85 stocks 256.53 (off 2.20).
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  • SPORTS
    • 628 10  -  SOCCER SCENE by. Jeffrey Low Our National team resume centraliscd training today in Spartan preparation for the vital showdown with Pahang on Saturday. In-c&mp training proved a tremendous success in uplifting the boys' morale for last Sunday's match against Selangor. "Another dose will do them
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    • 132 10 Houston, Tuesday Dave Hill sank eight birdie-putts in the final 18 holes for a seven-under-par 65 to win the Houston Open golf by one stroke from Steve Melnyk, Rod Curl and Andy North. Hill watched as bighitting Melnyk barely missed a 20-foot putt at
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    • 951 10 1A1M74 London, Tuesday Soccer's summit meeting, the World Cup finals, await the entrance of the gladiators with European nations posing a massive threat to the continued reign of champions Brazil. Brazil, the only nation to win the Cup three times—in 1958, 1962 and
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    • 320 11 into the straight, with Spring Garden closing i« f ld^Ray^FUybor made U P ground. Spring Garden raced past Wai. ffifed tW?d. »*»**> win convincingly from Triple Nine made the running, leading into the straight, with Aurosa and Tenacious moving up. Hurricane made up
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    • 443 11  -  By I PERCY SENEVIRATNE Remember the name Shahid Hasan. He is Indian Association's latest cricket acquisition. He may not be an Imtikhab Alam or Pervez Sajjed. But there is no doubt that in the Senior League he is the fox among the chickens. And if
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    • 228 11 London, Tuesday The Indian cricketers gained the sixth successive draw of their current tour after being set to score 275 runs in 220 minutes for victory by Yorkshire at Bradford yesterday. Rain cut 30 minutes off the Indians' target time and made a decisive result
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    • 29 11 Tokyo, Tuesday Former world junior welterweight champion Eddie Perkins of the ÜB. outpointed Orient welterweight,title holder Ryu Borimachl of Japan over a 10 rounds here last night.
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    • 22 11 London, Tuesday C a m b ridge University's rugby club have cancelled a tour of Rhodesia planned for next month.
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    • 384 11 Bogota, Tuesday—Co- i lombia's Alvaro Be tancur beat South African Bayron Bartam 8-2. 4-8, i 8-8, 8-8 yesterday in the last match of the American zone final of the Davis Cup tennis, but South Africa won the i series 3-2. Colombia scored their 1 first
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    • 528 11 Answers at Bangkok Peking, Tuesday. China's badminton stars are powering their way towards the top of the international ladder with the same blend of fitness, skill and courtesy that has won international acclaim for the country's table tennis players. Tne few overseas trips made by Chinese badminton teams
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    • 366 11 Major Step shows vast improvement Prince Sinclair did a splendid gallop at Bukit Timah this morning. With Johnny Wilson in the saddle, the Prince--1 on e flve-year-old beat Far East II (trainer Garnet Bougoure up) over 3f in 37 3/5 in yielding going. Jim Johnson,
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    • 1492 11 BLUE PETER spotlights the newcomers Just Too Good, a newcomer entered for the Lion City. Cup meeting at Bukit Tim ah, ran in top-class company in Australia. A four year old bay gelding by Raimondo out of Jane Hero, Just Too
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    • 149 11 24 DAYS GRAND EUROPEAN TOUR Visit London,Belgium,Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland France Only SS277Q Depatures: Q5 7, 02 S, 30 8, 27 9. An ever-iUo<j.f,i l>eop!os n-j s»tjhTi r uny- Aherc i <<» o er .ridt c Kr. si• The s p..,-. CG V C .VITH js 19'4 Y/- K i
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  • 85 12 To sing her way around the world that is what 19-year-old Lee Chun Chun from Hong Kong hopes to do while she is still young. And she has chosen Singapore as the starting point of her overseas singing career. Chun Chun, who is making a
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  • 106 12 TODAY Is Tuesday, May 14. the 124th day of 1974 with 231 to foUow. THE MOON is In its last quarter. THE MOBNING STABS are Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. THE EVENING STABS are Mars and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. Gabriel Fahrenheit,
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  • 68 12 AH FOOK: From the government statement, it would seem that the problem of drug abuse among our youths is very much with us. MEI LIN: The closing of discos and the imposition of heavier penalties on drug traffickers and abusers have their limitations. We must have a sustained
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    • 1102 12 2.00 m TRADE AND TEST TRANSMISSION (Colour) 3.06 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by IN AND ABOUND A magazine aeries presented in English. 3.3# DIARY OF EVENTS (E) 3.35 LOVE IS A many splendoured THING Daytime serial on the trials and tribulations of three families In San Francisco. 3.55 OUR MUSIC MAKERS
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    • 315 12 ma WEATHER New York Sunny, 65-51F, 18-10C. Headline: Kissinger meets Syrian President and notes Rains. San Francisco Fair, 62-45F, 16-7C. Headline: Nixon counsel says there are no slurs on tapes. Moscow Overcast, possible rain, 45-34F, 7-1C. Headline: Party organisations in establishments. Tokyo Fair, 72-55F. 22-13C. Headline: IPI General Assembly under
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    • 706 12 with EDGAR KOH the SEVEN-IJPS: Roy Scheider takes orer from Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood as a relentless cop, bead nf a dirty tricks squad which comes into a life-and-death struggle with the Mafia In mean New-York; a fast-paced suspense thriller —even the compulsory car chase Is exciting. Odeon: 1.30,
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    • 173 12 tt i r 55 Club will hold Its MONTHLY MEETING AND AUCTION at the Singapore Cricket Club at 5.30 jun. The Klwanls Club of Singapore will hold It* LUNCHEON MEETING at the Ming Court Hotel from 12.30 pjn. to 2 p.m. A DISPLAY OF SINGAPORE MADE PRODUCTS by the Singapore
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